According to multiple players at this week’s 2018 NBA Draft Combine, the Pistons were using virtual reality goggles, designed by STRIVR, during the interview process with potential draftees. Many of the players who admitted to being interviewed by Detroit, which has the No. 42 selection in next month’s draft, said the meetings were unlike any other.

“It was different than pretty much every interview I’ve had,” said South Carolina’s Brian Bowen, a native of Saginaw, Mich.

Bowen said team officials asked him to put on goggles that displayed a court and put players in situations that they would see in NBA games. He said he went through a series of questions that dove into his understanding of help defense, defending screens and other areas of the game.

“It was interesting,” Bowen continued. “It was out of 12 questions,...